Baroni’s lawyers, in a brief filed in U.S. District Court, had argued that the former aide should be released on bail while the nation’s high court takes a look at the 2016 convictions against him and another former Christie aide, Bridget Kelly.

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On Monday, U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton signed the order shortly after Baroni’s attorneys filed it.

The judge also said Bridget Kelly would not have to report for a 13-month sentence on July 10 for her role in the 2013 scheme, commonly called Bridgegate.

The pair were nailed for plotting to jam up traffic near the George Washington Bridge to punish the Fort Lee, N.J., mayor who refused to endorse Christie’s 2013 reelection. The high court said Friday it would hear their appeals in the fall.

He was the deputy executive director at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Kelly served as Christie’s deputy chief of staff. She also was the author of a famously intemperate email that warned “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" after the town’s Democratic mayor declined to endorse Republican Christie for his 2013 reelection.

The scandal generated negative headlines for Christie and played a role in his failed 2016 presidential campaign, with his rivals using it to attack the two-term governor. Then-candidate Donald Trump, for example, said on the trail that Christie knew about the bridge closure — something Christie always denied.

David Wildstein, another former Port Authority official, pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors during the trial. He was convicted and sentenced to probation and community service, and now operates a New Jersey politics news site.